Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention

Encourages health care providers to broaden their understanding of patients' health issues

Provides a means to improve the health of a geographical area or population group

Basic epidemiological concepts applied to:
• Management issues
• Marketing
• Small area analysis
• GIS
• Primary prevention
• Health policy models in management problems

Unique features include:
• Broad-based holistic perspective
• Marketing
• Utilizing epidemiological measures to analyze and solve problems
• The importance of a geographical information system (GIS) in the evaluation of health problems
• The analysis of problems involving small numbers and small areas.  Small area analysis is defined for the manager to handle typical yet frustrating administrative problems.